Yes, Letts…….

Hello Poetry Lovers

Happy New Year to you.

I hope Christmas was nice. Do you recall getting a diary every year? A real stocking filler or an indifferent gift from an aunt or uncle.

I usually got a red one, and wrote entries for the first week then forgot about it for the rest of the year.

Anyway, whatever I put in it, a girl in my class would always nab it and read it out loud! Why?! So I’ve tried to sum this funny little ritual up in the following piece.

Read on if you can bear it….

Little Red Book

An A6 little red diary

A standard stocking filler

(Not a posh one, like Letts)

From a very tight present giver

I’d write in it every January

About how I hated post Yuletide

Evelyn would read it out to the class

And suggested I consider suicide

The contents were hardly revealing

She just wanted to show me up

I was embarrassed by my lack of activity

Racier contents would have to be made up

By the time I did that, it was the Fifth Form

Where no-one gave a flying toss

And Evelyn preoccupied with sixth formers

Not interested now in fabricated dross

At seventeen, the diaries stopped

My stocking contained more sophistication

Evelyn went to work in the bank

And I was plunged into further education!

HM 2024

Not the best ending there, PL’s. Any suggestions on a postcard please. Or come forward with any quirky situations yourselves of course.

Happy New Year, Poetry Lovers. We’ll be back with more poetry action real soon…..